The Wathann Film Fest ()is a

film festival A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theater, cinemas or screening venues, usually annually and in a single city or region. Some film festivals show films outdoors or online. Films may be of recent ...

held annually in

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, during the rainy season in September. With its launch in 2011, in a time of political transition after the general elections in 2010, it is the first film festival in

. Entries to the competition are categorized as Short Fiction, Documentary Film, or Other (in 2011 called "New Vision"). Winners of the competition for each award are selected by a jury. The length of films is limited to 15 minutes for fiction, animation,

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or 30 minutes for documentary film. The design of the Wathann Film Fest was inspired by the

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. The primary mission of the festival is, according to its director and co-founder,

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, "to improve the standards of local films and inspire directors to produce higher-quality and more artistic films." In its 2012 edition, the Wathann Film Fest features a writing contest organized by the

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